Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-10
THE UNION BRIDGE.
soyE IMPORTANT FACTS AND FIGURES In
REGARD TO 1T.
Gold Short Tells How Ptsburg Is Enerusehiug
Upon whseling's Terrioy-fhs Absolute
Necessity Of More Railnads-Coa
Of the Union Bridge,

Upon Whselings T~sritory-Ths Aooiais
Necessity Of More Railoads-Cst
Of the Union Bridge
Through the courtesy of Phillip Henry
Moore-"Cold Short"-we publish ex-
tracts from his letter which viii appear to
day in the st. Louis Age Of Sted:-
1.-THE blast furnaces in
the Wheeling district are operating under
n manifest disadvantage as 10 costs Of coke.
This seems to be a hard matter to adjust.
The only solution OF the question that ap.
pears at all feasible would be either 70 Cd
tain their supplies from another quarter
say from West yirginia-or to own o por-
ton of the Connellsville field and build q
railroad to it from Wheeling. Some Of
this is practicable and part is not. Con-
uellsyille coal land can not be had at any
thing like reasonable figures and railroad
charges by the present railroad manage
ments can not be controlled either with or
without interstate bills.
WEST VIRGINIA COAL LANDS
are easily procurable at low prices-but
there is the abomiuable home prejudice
against them..to be overcome. 1t is true that
some trials have been vouchsafed this
West Virginia coal, but none oil them, !
take it, have been strictly fair the coal
has been carelessly selected and the coke
inexpertly manufactured. When the
stress Of a rapidly decreasing supply Of
Connellsville coke comes upon the Pitts
burg manufacturers, and the time of this
is already being calculated, Pittsburg
enterprise, nerve and ambition will &C
quire, develop and utilize West Virginia
coal fields, coke the coal and sell it to the
Wheeling district furnacemen.
81 am not the only one that has wrestled
prayerfully, coaxingly, almost abusiVely
with the Wheeling people about their
inertness as TO their States mineral re-
resources-seemingly without avail-but
| now tell them that the day is not distant
when they will be
ENRICHING PITTsBuRG
by paying her capitalists for the use and
benefit of their own States resources. Al
ready thousands of acres Of both ore and
coal lands in West Virginia have been
gathered in by Pittsburg's enterprising
capitalists-they are building railroads to
them and projecting new ones-and this
means that Wheeling will continue indefi-
nitely to pay tribute to Pittsburg for the
privilege Of manufacturing iron. Il
To capitalists in other States on the qni
rire for a sagacious, profitable investment
of their funds, there is no better field, in
truth scarcely any as good, as these unde-
veloped mineral bearing lands of West Vir-
GINA.
'In addition to the minerals that under
lie them, they are covered with virgin for
ests of magnificent timber; more than
enough TO pay back the first investment
with a heavy dividend in addition. Il
THE b. 4 o. DEAL.
"The latest contribution to the business
absurdities of the times is furnished by the
collapse OF Robert CARROTS futile efforts
to fill q prominent position. The elder
Garrett, while he was an able man, was
controlled by a monstrously selfish mo
tive, and to its furtherance all concurrent
and incidentally tributary interests had to
bend. His grand idea was to build up and
enrich Baltimore, and this idea 80 FREEDOM
mated all Others as to cause Mr.. Garrett
to work serious, almost criminally mis-
chievous injustices to the interests Of other
States aud people.
BALTIMORE WAS HIS MILL,
and all other sections Of the country
through which his road passed, must bring
grist to it, even if brought TO restitution
thereby. He never succeeded, even par
TALLY, except in one instance, and that
dwarfed and well nigh crushed the civil
~ization, the development and progress of
the part of the State Of West Virginia,
through which his road passed. IN that,
owing in part TO the rugged topography Of
the State, which rendered investigation
and survey measurably difficult and disa-
greeable, except to adventurous spirits,
and to the general apathy Of the people,
he had a show of success, just enough 10
encourage him TO persist in his policy and
build up a series Of walls, against which
his son and successor has butted out bis
business brains. He built
A WALL AGAINST LOCAL TRAFFIC.,
and the lack OF that financial succor
which q sa~gaciously fostered local traffic
has furnished the Pennsylvania railroad
and other roads, has assisted in bringing
the B. & q. into financial emharrassments
and neutralized the weakly efforts Of the
Anglomaniaoal exquisite upon whom his
executive mantle descended.
THAT the recent deal will be permitted,
or that the parties thereto ever oontem-
pleted the obliteratiou Of the b. 4 q. a. q
competing factor in the operation OF the
already limited and fettered transportation
facilities Of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West
Virginia and Ohio, In not good commercial
logic. This country Is too far advanced in
progressive intelligence to even tacitly per-
nit the suggestion Of such an outrage
against commercial accommodation and
the promotion Of industrial activity and
progress. There will be q change of man.
agenent, and naturally,
A CHANGE OF POLICY,
and it will be an u~nreasonably vicious and
selfish change If West Virginia and West
ern Pennsylvania do not gain relief from
oppression under Its working. !
"But this deal brings forth one fact in
Sfhoo1